Static Data Export

CCP provides developers a series of static files, known as the Static Data Export(SDE), which contains static data from the Tranquility server. The SDE is currently exported as .yaml and .static files, however, different and easier to use formats(mentioned below) are made by the community. The SDE can be found at the EVE developers resource page. All resources provided by CCP are subject to the license agreement linked on the page.

Fuzzwork SDE Conversions

To aide fellow developers and players in consuming this data without having to extract or convert from YAML or static format every time Steve Ronuken has hosted conversions in PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, MSSQL, and CSV formats. They can be found at Fuzzwork under SDE or more directly at www.fuzzwork.co.uk/dump. Individual table data can be found in CSV and SQL (MySQL) formats here www.fuzzwork.co.uk/dump/latest.

Opening a file from Fuzzwork SDE Conversions

To extract data from compressed files, use tar for .tar.bz2 files or bunzip2 for .bz2 files in linux, and something like 7-zip for either format in windows. Once extracted the files can be opened in the appropriate application that supports the file format.

How does the ESI fit into all this?

The EVE Swagger Interface intends to have endpoints to account for all of the SDE, currently, it's not quite there yet, and the SDE is needed for many projects. The progress can be tracked here.

How to implement the original SDE into your application

Step 0: Preface

This is not a guide to Python or programming, if you don't know how to program, there are tons of resources to learn to code, there are a few of my favorites in the External Links section down below, if your having issues, contact me at Asgore Astroficus (talk).

Step 1: Opening the file

Firstly, find the file containing the data you need, for this example, I'm going to use fsd/blueprints.yaml. This file contains all the information required to build an industry cost predictor. Next, open the file using your desired programming language, I'm going to use python, so to open this I'll run with open("fsd/blueprints.yaml", "r") as f:. The file is open! To the next step!

Step 2: Reading the file

Step 2.1: Installing PyYAML

Assuming you're using pip, this should be as simple as pip install pyyaml. If you having issues, contact me at Asgore Astroficus (talk) or have a look at this article.

Step 2.2: Interpreting the file

Now that PyYAML is installed, we need to use it to parse our file, we have already opened it, so it should just be a matter of parsing it with PyYAML, which can be done by blueprints = yaml.load(f, Loader=yaml.FullLoader), remember to have import yaml at the top of your .py file. Hopefully now if you print out the blueprints variable, your console will be filled with sweet, sweet data and the taste of success. The data will be a dictionary, and the rest from here should be relatively simple, it should just be navigating through the data as if it was a dictionary.

Step 3: Postface

I hope this short guide helped you somewhat get into the SDE, I might write one for the Fuzzwork conversions soon. If you have any issues, pop me a message here Asgore Astroficus (talk).

What each table contains

Table name	What it contains
agtAgents.csv.bz2	Contains information regarding agents such as location, corporation, type, level, and locator (boolean)
agtAgentTypes.csv.bz2
agtResearchAgents.csv.bz2
certCerts.csv.bz2
certMasteries.csv.bz2	What ships have what certificates. In this case, typeID is the ship, and certID is the certificate. See certSkills
certSkills.csv.bz2
chrAncestries.csv.bz2
chrAttributes.csv.bz2
chrBloodlines.csv.bz2	Contains information on what race each bloodline belongs to, descriptions.
chrFactions.csv.bz2	Faction IDs, name, and description. Also what race each faction belongs to, and some other misc. information.
chrRaces.csv.bz2	raceID and raceName, iconID and a long and short description (side note, ORE is a race)
crpActivities.csv.bz2	IDK, maybe names of NPC sturcture groups?
crpNPCCorporationDivisions.csv.bz2
crpNPCCorporationResearchFields.csv.bz2	Unknown
crpNPCCorporations.csv.bz2
crpNPCCorporationTrades.csv.bz2	Information on what each NPC corp sells.
crpNPCDivisions.csv.bz2	Information on NPC divisions, mostly deprecated.
dgmAttributeCategories.csv.bz2	What each categoryID is, and a categoryName
dgmAttributeTypes.csv.bz2	Defines attributes of types (like CPU Load, Powergrid Usage, EM damage)
dgmEffects.csv.bz2	Information regarding effects, such as launching missiles, scaling damage, and the effects skills have.
dgmExpressions.csv.bz2	Information regarding expressions
dgmTypeAttributes.csv.bz2	Provides values for the attributes of a type (how much EM damage does the Mjolnir Cruise Missile do) See dgmAttributeTypes and
dgmTypeEffects.csv.bz2	effectID that each typID had, see also dgmEffects.csv.bz2
eveGraphics.csv.bz2	Information regarding grapics such as graphicID, graphic location, race, and description.
eveIcons.csv.bz2
eveUnits.csv.bz2
industryActivity.csv.bz2	Contains the number of seconds it takes to create a blueprint product
industryActivityMaterials.csv.bz2	Contains the materials required to create a blueprint product
industryActivityProbabilities.csv.bz2	Contains the outcome and the probability of an invention
industryActivityProducts.csv.bz2	Shows what processes create what (such as what products a blueprint creates)
industryActivityRaces.csv.bz2
industryActivitySkills.csv.bz2	Contains information about the skills required to manufacture any blueprint.
industryBlueprints.csv.bz2	Contains the base maximum amount of BPC runs
invCategories.csv.bz2	Category IDs and category names
invContrabandTypes.csv.bz2
invControlTowerResourcePurposes.csv.bz2
invControlTowerResources.csv.bz2
invFlags.csv.bz2
invGroups.csv.bz2	Contains information on inventory groups, such as groupID, categoryID, and other metadata
invItems.csv.bz2	Information about itemID and typeID, and some others
invMarketGroups.csv.bz2	Defines the market group hierarchy
invMetaGroups.csv.bz2	A small file about meta group ids, such as Tech I, Tech II, Faction, Officer, etc
invMetaTypes.csv.bz2	typeID, parentTypeID, metaGroupID
invNames.csv.bz2	itemID for everything. Not that itemID is not typeID.
invPositions.csv.bz2
invTraits.csv.bz2
invTypeMaterials.csv.bz2
invTypeReactions.csv.bz2
invTypes.csv.bz2	Defines the types in the game like market items and celestial objects. Contains typeID, name, description, marketGroupID, ...
invUniqueNames.csv.bz2
invVolumes.csv.bz2
mapCelestialStatistics.csv.bz2
mapConstellationJumps.csv.bz2
mapConstellations.csv.bz2	Constellation position, faction, name, region, name, and radius.
mapDenormalize.csv.bz2	Position, radius, and security status of moons, planets, solar systems, all the way to regions. As such, a very large CSV with more than half a million lines.
mapJumps.csv.bz2
mapLandmarks.csv.bz2
mapLocationScenes.csv.bz2
mapLocationWormholeClasses.csv.bz2	Each location's wormholeClassID
mapRegionJumps.csv.bz2
mapRegions.csv.bz2
mapSolarSystemJumps.csv.bz2
mapSolarSystems.csv.bz2
mapUniverse.csv.bz2	Possibly to differentiate between K-space and J-space? (speculation)
planetSchematics.csv.bz2	schematicID, name, and time it takes to complete that schematic.
planetSchematicsPinMap.csv.bz2
planetSchematicsTypeMap.csv.bz2
ramActivities.csv.bz2	Describes what each R.A.M. does. See Manufacturing
ramAssemblyLineStations.csv.bz2
ramAssemblyLineTypeDetailPerCategory.csv.bz2	Information on R.A.M.
ramAssemblyLineTypeDetailPerGroup.csv.bz2
ramAssemblyLineTypes.csv.bz2
ramInstallationTypeContents.csv.bz2
skinLicense.csv.bz2
skinMaterials.csv.bz2
skins.csv.bz2
skinShip.csv.bz2	What skins can be used on what ships
staOperations.csv.bz2
staOperationServices.csv.bz2	Information about what station types offer what services (speculation)
staServices.csv.bz2
staStations.csv.bz2	Information about stations, their security level, location, name, reprocessing level, and much more.
staStationTypes.csv.bz2
translationTables.csv.bz2	Appears to be empty
trnTranslationColumns.csv.bz2
trnTranslationLanguages.csv.bz2
trnTranslations.csv.bz2
warCombatZones.csv.bz2	A small file that updates regularly. It contains information about combat zones (FW I think?)
warCombatZoneSystems.csv.bz2

External Links

• CodeCademy
• Corey Schafer
• EVE Online Discord Dev Chat - I read most messages sent here, if you need help that StackOverflow can't provide, here is your best bet.